Richard Catalano
DeFi Solidity Engineer at Thrackle
Libertyville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Catalano is a DeFi Solidity engineer with 11 years in blockchain engineering and research, blending a Computer Science and Economics double major from Northern Illinois University with entrepreneurial instincts. He has led architecture and engineering for NFT/DeFi products, built L2 and payment channel solutions, and shipped production smart contracts and account-abstraction modules across startups and foundations. His hands-on work spans protocol-level contributions (Go-Ethereum, Solidity toolchain), developer tooling (Embark, EthPM), and practical integrations like Chainlink, The Graph, serverless oracles, and ENS-based package management. Notable for bridging research and product, he’s built bridges, DEXes, and state-channel payment systems while teaching ML, NLP, and smart contract development to students. Based in Libertyville, IL, he combines deep protocol knowledge with pragmatic product delivery and a track record of moving teams from prototype to acquisition.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Downers Grove South High SchoolAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at College of DuPageBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Economics at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
cryptocurrency10
serverless10
cpp10
api10
nodejs10
cryptography10
geth10
programming-language10
bash10
ipfs10
eip10
smart-contracts10
wallet10
foundry10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
VoR0220/eris-cli
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:69 pushes, 49 branches in 6 months
phpecosystemapplication-platform
VoR0220/qx86-rs
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Rust implementation of the Qtum-x86 subset of the x86 architecture
Contributions:72 pushes, 44 branches in 9 months
qtumrustsubsetx86x86-64
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